The Blue Moon (musical)

[2] Despite generally favourable press notices, it ran for only 182 performances, not a significant success by the standards of the Edwardian London stage.

[4] Another opened on Broadway under the direction of Frank Smithson at the Casino Theatre on November 3, 1906, starring Ethel Jackson in the title role.

She is generally assumed to be Burmese, but is in fact English, abducted from her mother Lady Augusta Brabasham, by a criminal deserter from the British army.

Captain Jack Ormsby, a young officer whose regiment is stationed nearby, has fallen in love with Chandra Nil.

This unexpected meeting forces Moolraj to explain who Chandra Nil really is, and Jack is able to marry his singing girl without shocking his aristocratic relations.

[7] The Times made fun of the lack of plot, and said that if there were any less of a story, the show would have to be billed as a series of turns rather than a musical play.

"[9] The Daily Mail also predicted success for the musical, describing it as: the pleasant, light, more or less connected variety show so dear to the heart of the tired Londoner in search of a jolly digestive.

"[4] The New York Times gave the Broadway production an unfavourable notice; of the comic lead, James T. Powers, it wrote, "one gets rather tired seeing him labor to put humor into lines which are absolutely without a vestige of that desirable quality.